Legal Question in DUI Law in Wisconsin

You need to retain an attorney as soon as possible and discuss all of this right away with experienced legal counsel. If pursued quickly enough, the attorney might be able to file paperwork to attempt to save your driver's license by challenging your administrative suspension. If that is not done within ten days, you will lose all right to fight it, even if you are found not guilty on the underlying drunk driving charge. I do not know enough about your case to give you any sort of serious advice and would never advise someone whether or not to plead guilty without a full investigation. A lawyer may spot defenses, such as whether or not there was probable cause to arrest you, whether the test was properly offered to you on a functional intoximeter machine in a timely fashion, and whether or not the result of the test supports a conviction. However, the fact that you had an accident is certainly not a good start in terms of fighting the charge. Although there is legislation to make certain first offense drunk driving cases into criminal cases, at this particular moment in time they are usually non-criminal, and the worst that can happen is loss of license, a huge fine, a court ordered alcohol assessment, mandatory installation of an ignition interlock device, and much higher insurance premiums over the next ten years. If it is a second or subsequent offense, however, you are facing mandatory jail and should definitely get a lawyer. Other than advising you to immediately get a lawyer, my comments here do not constitute legal advice and do not create an attorney/client relationship between. However, you are more than welcome to contact me via my direct email address posted here or by phone in order to discuss arrangements for me to possibly accept your case for full representation.